Offer a scholarly output and publishing platform to UW faculty, students, and staff.

Enabling faculty, student, and staff works to be easily discoverable on the web.

Digital collections and projects can be large or small and can take very little time to complete or span multiple years of ongoing work. We have partnered with individuals, departments, colleges, and welcome all opportunities to work on projects with other institutions as well.

We can handle a wide variety of content including still images (such as photographs), large scale maps (up to 54″ in one dimension), books, loose papers & manuscripts, audio, and video. See here for details on equipment employed by the Digital Collections Office.

Project Examples

Digital Herbaria
In partnership with the National Park Service, the University of Wyoming Libraries has been digitizing vascular plant herbarium collections for selected National Parks. Specimen data for over 4 years running.

Botanical Fieldbooks
An offshoot of the Digital Herbaria project, the Botanical Fieldbooks Collection is comprised of original handwritten field notebooks of Botanists including Aven Nelson, Elias Nelson, Leslie N. Goodding, Edwin B. and Lois B. Payson, Louis O. Williams and others identified only by initials. Specimens were collected primarily in Wyoming, but also in parts of Colorado, Nebraska, Montana, Idaho, and other states.

Digital UW: A look under the hood

Islandora version 7x.1.3 is the software behind Digital UW. Islandora is a Drupal front end with modules that allow Drupal to connect to a preservation repository system called Fedora Commons (v. 3 currently). Additionally, Islandora is comprised of a number of "solution packs" that enable web access of digital content stored in Fedora. Therefore, Islandora offers not only access to and discovery of digital content, but also preservation of digital objects over the long term that enable forward migration.

Currently Installed Islandora Solution Packs and examples

Solution Pack (SP)

Digital Object File Type(s)

Explanation and Example

Audio SP

WAV, MP3

The Audio SP creates an audio object that is viewable via JW Player, downloadable, and that can be embedded elsewhere (WyoCourses for example).Audio SP example

Creates a book that is made up of multiple images of pages. Original TIFFs are ingested and JPG, PDF, and OCR derivatives are created for access and download. Pages are rendered through the Internet Archive Book Viewer in paged form and are full-text searchable (depending on OCR accuracy).Book SP example

Compound SP

Any of other SP supported types

A Compound object is simply two or more objects based on different SPs. For example, a grouping of individual audio and image objects may be grouped together via a Compound object.Compound Object example

Newspaper SP

TIFF

The Newspaper SP functions just like the Book SP except that it is designed to render serialized content such as newspapers or journals. Newspaper SP example

The Video SP creates a vidio object that is viewable via JW Player, downloadable, and that can be embedded elsewhere (WyoCourses for example). We're currently working on loading this content so we have no examples right now.